Gregory Hillis | A profoundly moving interview with Pope Francis

8:28 PM,
Sep. 27, 2013

Gregory Hillis

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Gregory Hillis
| Special to The Courier-Journal

Last week "America," a Jesuit-sponsored Roman Catholic magazine, published an exclusive interview with Pope Francis. The interview garnered, and continues to garner, a tremendous amount of media interest, with most attention paid to the pope's comments on the "hot-button" issues.

Being a Roman Catholic theologian, I was deeply interested in reading the entire interview for myself. I expected the interview to be a fascinating glimpse into the mind of Pope Francis and his vision for the church of which I'm part.

What I did not expect was to be profoundly moved in the reading of it, but that is ...